Privacy Policy

1. Please read carefully

GirlGatherings.net cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and users. To that end, this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Wix.com Ltd., together with its affiliated companies worldwide (“Girl Gatherings”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), collect, use, and share your Personal Information ("PI"), as well as an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to all Wix users, including unregistered visitors, registered users, and premium users (collectively, “Users”, “you”, or “your”), and to all Girl Gatherings services, including our websites (including www.girlgatherings.net and any of its subdomains, the “Website”), and related services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws.

Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information.  If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us.

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This policy describes our privacy practices – what Personal Information we collect about our Users, what we do with it, how we share it, and your rights regarding that Personal Information.

 

By accessing or using any of our Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.

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2. What ‘Personal Information’ do we collect?

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2.1. User information:

To provide you the Services, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal Information you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources. Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:

1. Information you provide us. When you register for our Services, sign up for any Girl Gatherings events, subscribe to our blog(s) or newsletter(s), use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., emails), you may provide us Personal Information, such as name, email address, phone number, payment information (for Users with Paid Services), information you include in your communications with us and with other users on our platform, and Personal Information contained in scanned identification documents (such as an ID card, driver’s license, passport, or official company registration documents).

2. Information we collect when you use the Services. When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc

3. Information we collect from other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from third-party sources, such as i) security providers , fraud detection and prevention providers for example to help us screen out users associated with fraud, ii) social media platforms, when you log-in or sign-up using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile Personal Information) and in some cases, we may collect Personal Information from lead enhancement companies which help us to improve our service offering; iii) advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.

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To provide our Services, we collect Personal Information about our Users.

The Personal Information comes from you when you visit or use our services, Personal Information we collect automatically, and Personal Information we collect from other sources.

2.2. Users of users ‘Personal Information’

We may also collect Personal Information pertaining to visitors and users of our User’s websites or services (“Users-of-Users”), solely for and on our Users’ behalf (as further described in Section ‎6 below).

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3. Why do we collect such ‘Personal Information’

We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate the Services;

2. To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;

3. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

4. To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section 8 below);

5. To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new customers;

6. To facilitate, sponsor, and offer certain contests, events, and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners, and grant prizes and benefits;

7. To analyze our performance and marketing activities;

8. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;

9. To provide you with professional assistance.

10. To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities; and

11. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations. 

We may use techniques like “machine learning” (European law refers to this as “automated decision-making”) to help us improve our services. When we use machine learning, we either: (i) still have a human being involved in the process (and so are not fully automated); or (ii) use machine learning in ways that don’t have significant privacy implications (for example, reordering how applications might appear when you visit the Wix App Market). We may also use machine learning to help us monitor, identify, and suspend accounts sending spam, or engaging in other abusive or fraudulent activity.

 

We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 3 where:

1. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with a website builder, to provide you with our customer assistance and technical support);

2. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have; or

3. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests and business purposes (for example, to maintain and improve our Services and the effectiveness of Girl Gatherings by identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted in a way that is proportionate and that respects your privacy rights.

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We use the Personal Information we collect about you to provide our services and make them better and safer.

 

We also collect and use Personal Information in order to contact Users and to comply with the laws applicable to us.

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4. How we share your ‘Personal Information’

We do not share your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following manners and instances:

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Girl Gatherings does not control and is not responsible for the actions or policies of any Third Party Service, and your use of any Third Party Service is at your own risk. We encourage you to review any privacy policy accompanying a Third Party Service and ask such Third Party Service for any clarifications you may need before deciding to install and/or use their services.

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5. Use of cookies and other third-party technologies

We and our Third Party Service Providers use cookies and other similar technologies (“Cookies”) in  order for us to provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience.

 

You can learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies and how you can exercise control over them in our Cookie Policy.

 

Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, however, most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.

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We and certain third party services may use cookies and similar tracking technologies throughout our services.

These technologies are used mostly for stability, security, functionality, performance and advertising purposes

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6. Communications from Girl Gatherings

Promotional messages

We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail, notifications within our platform, marketing calls and similar forms of communication from Girl Gatherings.

 

If you do not wish to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify Girl Gatherings at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.

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We may send you promotional messages and content.
You can easily opt-out of receiving promotional messages by contacting us or unsubscribing.

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It is important that you are always able to receive such messages. For this reason, you are unable to opt-out of receiving such Service and Billing Messages unless you are no longer a Girl Gatherings User (which can be done by deactivating your account).​

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We may also contact you with service and billing-related messages and content. You will not be able to opt-out of receiving such messages.

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7. Your rights in relation to your ‘Personal Information’

Girl Gatherings believes that it is imperative that all Girl Gatherings users have control over their Personal Information. Therefore, depending on the way you use the Girl Gatherings Services, you may have the right to request access to, receive a copy of, update, amend or delete, port certain Personal Information to another service, restrict, or object to certain uses of your Personal Information (for example, for direct marketing purposes). Further, when we rely on your consent for processing of your Personal Information (for instance, for direct marketing) you can withdraw your consent at any time, and such withdrawal will take effect from thereon.

Girl Gatherings will not charge you more if you exercise any of these rights and will continue to provide you with the same level of service.

Before fulfilling your request, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law (e.g. if your request is unfounded or excessive).

 

You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection (but we still recommend that you contact us first).

When it comes to your Personal Information you stored with us, you have the right to: access, receive a copy of, update, amend or delete your Personal Information, enjoy data portability (in certain cases) restrict, or object to certain uses of your Personal Information, withdraw consent you’ve given us before to processing.

 

Just reach out to us by e-mail, mail or through our customer care team, or, when available, fill out our dedicated form.

You may also correct and/or update your Personal Information through your user account, if you have one.
 

8. Questions and complaints

If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information, or if you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or applicable data protection laws, please contact us – our details are set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

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Our Data Protection Officer team will investigate the complaint and determine whether a breach has occurred and what action, if any, to take. We take every privacy complaint seriously and will make all reasonable efforts to resolve your complaint promptly and in accordance with applicable law.

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You can file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection at any time, however we recommend that you contact us first so we can try to resolve it.

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You can file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection at any time.  Please contact us first so we can try to resolve your concerns.

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9. Data retention

We may retain your Personal Information for as long as your User Account is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.

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We may continue to retain your Personal Information after you deactivate your User Account and/or cease to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users or their Users-of-Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.

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To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we process it, and the applicable legal requirements.

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We may keep your Personal Information for as long as your account is active, and longer as needed (for example, if we are legally obligated to keep it longer, or need it to protect our interests).

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10. Security

Girl Gatherings has implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our Services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated purchase forms is protected by an industry standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection; and we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and Third Party Services for further enhancing the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors’ and Users’ privacy.

 

If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us.

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Girl Gatherings values the security of our customers' Personal Information and we do everything in our power to protect it.

However, as we can’t guarantee absolute protection – we encourage you to be careful, set a strong password for your account, and avoid submitting any sensitive information which, if exposed, could cause you major harm.

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11. Third-party websites

Our Services may contain links to other websites or services. We are not responsible for such websites’ or services’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third party websites and services.

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We will use such Personal Information solely for our internal business purposes.

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12. Public forums and user content

Our Services offer publicly accessible blogs, communities and support forums. Please be aware that any Personal Information you provide in any such areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your Personal Information from our blogs, communities or forums, feel free to contact us. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information from such areas. For example, if you use a third party application to post a comment (e.g., the Facebook social plugin application) while logged in to your related profile with such third party, you must login into such application or contact its provider if you want to remove the Personal Information you posted on that platform.

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In any event, we advise against posting any Personal Information (via any means) you don’t wish to publicize.

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If you upload any user content to your User Account or post it on your User Website and provide it in any other way as part of the use of any Service, you do so at your own risk.

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We have put adequate security measures in place to protect your Personal Information.  However, we cannot control the actions of other Users or members of the public who may access your User Content, and are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures you or we may have placed on your User Website (including, for instance, password-protected areas on your User Website). You understand and acknowledge that, even after its removal by you or us, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if any third parties (including any of your Users-of-Users) have copied or stored such User Content. To clarify, we advise against uploading or posting any information you do not wish to be public.

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13. Updates and interpretation

We may update this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law, and to reflect changes to our Personal Information collection, usage and storage practices. If we make any changes that we deem as “material” (in our sole good faith discretion), we will notify you (using one of the notification methods set forth in Section 15.3 of the Terms of Use) prior to the change becoming effective. In relation to any updated Privacy Policy, we will, as required by applicable law, notify you, seek your consent and/or take any other measures. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest Information on our privacy practices. Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your Users-of-Users, with respect to our Website, Wix Apps, Mobile Apps and other Services.

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This Privacy Policy was written in English, and may be translated into other languages for your convenience. You may access and view other language versions by changing your Wix Website language settings. If a translated (non-English) version of this Privacy Policy conflicts in any way with its English version, the provisions of the English version shall prevail.

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We may change this policy at any time. We will notify you of changes as required by applicable law.

 

​Translated (non-English) versions of these terms are provided for convenience only.

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17. Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights as described in Sections 9 or 10 please refer to those sections or contact the Data Protection Officer team via hello@kellyhurley.net email. We will attempt to resolve any complaints regarding the use of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

You may also contact us by mail at:

• Kelly Hurley, 3594 Normount Rd, Oceanside, CA 92056

 

Additional Information for U.S. State Residents

This section of our Privacy Policy details what Personal Information we collect about you under U.S. applicable privacy laws and regulations, the sources of the Personal Information, the purposes of use and disclosure, and the categories of third parties that may receive that Personal Information. The information in this section applies to you if you are a U.S. resident in a state with an applicable privacy law or regulation.

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Please read this section in combination with the other sections of this Privacy Policy for a complete understanding of how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.

 

Sources of Information:

We collect Personal Information:

• You provide us when you register for our Services, sign up for any Girl Gatherings events, subscribe to our blog(s) or newsletter(s), and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channels 

• When you use the Services by visiting, downloading, and/or using any of our Services. 

• From third-party sources, such as security providers, fraud detection services, social media platforms, lead enhancement companies, advertising and marketing partners.

 

Disclosure of Information for Business Purposes:

In the past 12 months, we may have disclosed each of the categories of personal information listed above to our affiliates, Third Party Service Providers, social media platforms, advertising partners, analytics partners, and promotional partners.

 

Sales or Sharing of Your Information:

Note: for sure, we're not out there auctioning off your data to the highest bidder. Third Party Service Providers, promotional partners, advertising partners, analytics partners, and social media platforms. Girl Gatherings does not knowingly collect, use, sell or share the Personal Information of children under the age of 16.

 

Sensitive Personal Information:

We may process Sensitive Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws and do not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information in any way that would require us to provide an opt-out opportunity under the applicable laws.

 

Retention of Information:

We retain your Personal Information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or any other notice provided at the time of collection.To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we process it, and the applicable legal requirements.